A A S H I
I'm really excited for this day. Like literally so damn excited. Ishu is coming after one month and I'm so excited to see him. I miss him so much. Even though we talk daily on video calls and keep texting, I still miss him. Oh no he isn't my boyfriend. He is my best friend.
He is going to be here in one hour. He already messaged that his flight had already landed and is going to bring me some surprises and I'm really looking forward to that. But I'm having a weird feeling in my stomach. I don't know how to put it in words but I have never felt like this. I feel like something bad is going to happen and I don't know what it is.
And trying to get control over my emotions, here I'm, stepping on the ladder to enter the attic of our mansion. Dad kept a few things here that he felt which are less needed. Entering into the attic successfully without breaking my bones, I closed the entrance of the small wooden door which made a creak sound as it's rare when we come here. This is my place of peace after Ishu. I always sneak in here when dad is not there. I suddenly felt some sounds coming from one end of the attic where no one goes.
Huffing to myself, I first made my way to the wooden window and opened it letting the light enter into the closed attic. Birds flew chirping loudly but I cringed at the sounds of mice. It must be them only at the other end of the attic. Shaking my head, I leaned on to the window and took a long breath and sighed peacefully. My stomach started churning again with more intensity. I felt as if something or precisely someone was calling me. Not physically but I felt that mentally. The light entered from the big window was enough for the whole attic to fill with brightness. I felt a small woosh sound along with some weird sound as if something was shaking. I turned around to see whether someone was here even after knowing that no one was at home now.
I turned around and took a few steps forward to a corner of the attic where we rarely go and we stopped going when dad said that we shouldn't go to that place. My interest perked up suddenly for this reason of his resistance to the specific corner so I went to the corner after taking a torch in my hand and turned it on. A mouse suddenly came in front of my foot making me gasp and take a few steps back but tripping over something, I fell on the floor planting my ass. I winced at that and was going to stand up but something else caught my attention.
A chest box.
Wow. I never knew we owned something like this. But what is it doing here? Is it why dad doesn't let us enter here? Because nothing is on this side except this box. Okay my curiosity is crossing the heights of Mount Everest now. Being the always bad girl with a good look I'm, I stood up smiling sheepishly to myself and dusted my jeans and made my way to it after grabbing the torch that fell beside me. I kept the torch in that direction and observed it keenly. It isn't too big nor is it too small, good enough to keep a few personal things and hide under the bed. It isn't visible until you look at it keenly with wide eyes. It is very well blended with the dark wooden floor and walls of the attic. I was just three feet away from it. It looked so old.
Should I open it? What if it's cursed or something? Is it safe? I mean I'm really curious but what if I die after touching this? I realised what the shit I'm speaking and smacked my head lightly before closing the distance between me and that chest box. It was covered with dust completely along with spider webs. I touched it slightly and felt a strong electric jolt passing through my whole body in a split second and I immediately retreated my hand back flinching at the intensity. It felt as if someone gave me a 250 volts electric shock.
What the fuck was that? Electric jolt? By a chest box? Is it any kind of magic? Damn! Is it really safe to open it?
I want to do it. I felt a sudden rush of determination and confidence in me and I decided to check what it is and what it is doing here? I was going to touch it again when everything around me started to jumble in a fast motion and everything felt like a blur and the next second I was standing in some different place.
A bedroom?
What am I doing in a bedroom? And this isn't mine. It's similar to mine but not mine. What the hell is happening? I tried to walk but I felt like my legs weren't able to move. I looked at my feet but they weren't chained or something. I tried again but I'm not able to move. I sighed in annoyance. Wait- my legs? Why are my legs looking a bit transparent? My hands? I looked around to find a mirror and found it exactly opposite to me. I squinted my eyes to look at my reflection but I found none. Why am I not able to see myself in the mirror?
All of a sudden, the door of the room burst open and a girl of my height entered the room with dark brown long hair and a mask on her face. Turning around she closed the door shut with a bang and walked stomping her foot and threw her bag on the bed with a frustrated sigh and sat beside her bag. She removed her mask and threw it across the room and screamed loudly at the top of her voice "ahhhh" and I stood there frozen.
The girl looks exactly like me.